cosset
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In contrast, the high-ticket productions on Broadway more often than not aim to cosset.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2019
She wonders if there was something in Farquharson, by contrast, that brought out “the maternal in women, our tendency to cosset, to infantilise.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016
Supporters of scooters say they offer something extremely valuable - freedom, countering the perceived tendency of many risk-averse parents to cosset their children indoors.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2015
It is clear from the excellent condition of all our homes that we cosset them.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2012
The last time I was over there the cosset lamb came into the kitchen to ask for milk.
From A Northern Countryside by Richards, Rosalind
Yet The Man Who Knew Infinity also shows the place as a golden doll’s house that cossets the don he plays, Trinity College maths professor GH Hardy.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2016
A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses.
From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2010
No, she calls the Plaza's elegant Edwardian Room, an oasis that cossets the wealthy with candles and linen napkins.
From Time Magazine Archive
My musical nephew there cossets himself up in his room, while I, at his age, was out making my way in the world.
From Edelweiss A Story by Auerbach, Berthold
There is really no describing how a swindler cossets his dupe.
From Sons of the Soil by Balzac, Honoré de
An otherwise urban-dwelling sophisticate, he cultivated a rustic demeanor for France’s benefit, uncharacteristically donning a coonskin hat and simple clothes to impress cosseted aristocrats and ordinary Parisians alike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
She may have grown up in showbusiness, working on multiple Disney shows before launching her music career, but she's neither cosseted nor precious.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
“But I seem to have been cosseted in some way that I couldn’t get to the writers’ room.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
I cosseted my weary garden with clover, practiced patience, saw the vanity of overwork.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023
Is it that we have been pampered, cosseted?
From Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 by Zangwill, Israel
Catherine essentially becomes a character in a Sofia Coppola movie who grows increasingly trapped and anguished in proportion to her cosseting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Denice Williams – Free From 1976, soul music so pillowy and cosseting, it makes Minnie Ripperton’s Loving You sound like Motörhead.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2020
When the vastly unqualified Dell stumbles into a job as Phillip’s caregiver, he’s rewarded with an eyebrow-raising salary and a depressed patient who needs entertaining more than cosseting.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2019
Modern America, with its enervating comforts — including cosseting parents — and present-minded education that produces cultural amnesia, must deliberately make its citizens.
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2017
Rosamund believed in plenty of air for her child, and no "cosseting"; she laughed to scorn, but genially, the nurse's prejudice against "the night air."
From In the Wilderness by Hichens, Robert Smythe
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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